Muddyfunkster: A Word to the Unwise

Well, that was my first proper interview of the current spell of joblessness and I sucked. I was presented with a series of coding questions, most of which weren’t hard but all were designed to catch people out – and I stood in every man trap and steaming pile of poo laid in front of me. Of course, they were all C based questions, a language I haven’t done in earnest since Uni, and therefore there was the ubiquitous pointers/memory allocation question. I really should read up on pointers before going into these things, it’s a favorite question of anyone wishing to cause great stress and anxiety.

Anyway, I could see the results he was giving me and overall it wasn’t pretty. Ah well, I don’t think I would have enjoyed working there anyway. I think they were looking for a deep down dirty thick client coder and that’s just not me. In a Groucho Marx fashion, I wouldn’t want to work for a company who would employ me as a dirty coder!

I can’t tell you anymore, they made me sign a piece of paper………